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Article: Baseball Umpires Threaten to Quit En Masse before Season's End.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 15, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 15 -- Major League Baseball umpires, disturbed over growing tensions with the people who run the game, announced yesterday that they will resign from their current posts effective Sept. 2 and form their own corporation.
Richie Phillips, the general counsel for the Major League Baseball Umpires Union, issued the declaration after a five-hour meeting at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott Hotel that included 57 of the 68 big-league umps.
The umpires had gathered on the final day of the all-star break to discuss the recent animosity with baseball and to decide whether to engage in an immediate strike. Under ...
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